When we code, we come accross a lot of characters that are rarely spoken which can lead to common miscommunication.
Here are names of characters that we might com accross while coding. You should be familiar with the primary names. This is a simplified version of this post.
| Character | Primary Name | Other Names |
|---|---|---|
| - | dash | minus, hyphen |
| _ | underscore | under, underline |
| ~ | tilde | squiggle, not |
| & | ampersand | and sign |
| | | bar | pipe, or, vertical line |
| ` | backtick | back quote, grave accent |
| ^ | caret | up arrow, xor |
| * | asterisk | star, wildcard, glob |
| . | dot | period, decimal point |
| " | quote | double quote, quotation mark |
| ' | apostrophe | single quote, prime |
| / | slash | forward slash |
| \ | backslash | escape character |
| % | percent sign | mod |
| # | hash | pound |
| < | less than | |
| > | greater than | |
| ( | opening parenthesis | open paren, left paren |
| ) | closing parenthesis | close paren, right paren |
| [ | opening bracket | left bracket, opeining square bracket |
| ] | closing bracket | right bracket, closing square bracket |
| { | opeing brace | left brace, opening curly brace |
| } | closing brace | right brace, closing curly brace |
| @ | at sign | at |
| $ | dollar sign | |
| ? | question mark | |
| ! | exclamation mark | bang, factorial |
| + | plus | |
| = | equals | |
| ; | semicolon | |
| : | colon | |
| , | comma |